In the '90s, before MacOSX was released, if people were to reffer to a user-friendly Unix that looked cool at the time, that would have been SGI's 64-bit operating system for the MIPS processors, the IRIX. IRIX was first released in 1987, and by 1995 was already a highly respected UNIX, the first with immense multimedia capabilities! Check out our introduction and some screenshots of IRIX.

Wow. Thanks. My first guess couldn't've been more wrong. Well, does the 24" SGI-branded Trinitron monitor that comes with it plug into the Octane itself? That thing would consume maybe 250 watts right there. Then the Octane would consume closer to 600 W. Hmm.. still that's a lot.

I've always heard that the MIPS chips were some of the most efficient CPU's around.